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APP 2022-16

A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance

Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Apr 25, 2022 · Filed by Craig A. Kelley and fellow residents: state law (MGL c.40A §5) lets ten registered voters put a proposed zoning change before the Council, which must process it on statutory clocks.
What happened
Apr 25, 2022 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee, unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Burhan Azeem
  • Quinton Zondervan
Roll call of Apr 25, 2022 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
🗂 In committee. Referred onward; the committee reports back to the Council.
Referred to committee, unanimousApr 25, 2022
Heard in committeeOrdinance CommitteeJun 29, 2022

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

The document the petition text · 8 pages
Amendment documents are shown only as the original PDF: the proposal’s meaning lives in its markup (struck-through deletions and underlined insertions), which a text rendering can’t carry. (A searchable OCR text layer exists behind the full reader view; treat it as search-and-skim only.)
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 25, 2022